Doctors

Dr Asha Chagarlamudi (f)

Dr Asha Chagarlamudi graduated from medical school in India in 1997. She started working for the NHS in 1999. Her special interests include:•diabetes•women's health•mental health•learning disabilities and•steroid injections

She is married and has 2 boys.

Dr Chandima Sriwardhana (f)

Dr Chandima Sriwardhana joined the practice in 2004. Her family are from Sri Lanka, and she grew up all over the UK including Airdrie and Bangor, North Wales. Her special interests include:•dermatology•family planning•minor surgery

She enjoys hiking

Dr Edward Foulkes (m)

Dr Edward Foulkes graduated from Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ (GKT) in 2005. He started working for the NHS in Brighton and London before starting a career in General Practice in 2008. He joined the practice in 2011. His special interests include:•baby/child health checks•sexual health•ENT•elderly care

His passion for sport, climbing and the great outdoors is currently on hold as he has 3 small children.

Dr Kiran Chandan (m)

Dr Kiran Chandan has worked as a hospital doctor in stroke, geriatrics and as a general physician. He joined the practice in November 2014, and qualified as a GP trainer in February 2015. He trained to start insulin when needed in diabetic patients, and performs dementia and elderly checks and has been nominated as dementia lead for Bromley. His special interests include:•diabetes•stroke•joint injections•minor surgery

He has three children and enjoys chess, carom, tennis and basketball.

Dr Savi Wijayatilake (f)

Dr Savi Wijayatilake grew up in Sri Lanka, and graduated from University College London in 2000. She started working for the NHS as a hospital doctor in London and Bath before deciding to go into General Practice. She did her GP training in Bournemouth and joined the practice in 2013. Her special interests include:•diabetes•baby/child health checks

Outside of work, she is a foodie who loves to travel.

Dr Nirav Amin (m)

Dr Amin has joined the practice in 2018 as a senior GP Registrar. He was born and raised in Bromley, but has studied worldwide.

He initially completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, Boston USA. He majored in Psychiatric Anthropology.

After this he moved back to the UK whereupon he joined Barts and the London Medical School, University of London, where he achieved his MBBS degree with merit.

He took a sabbatical and pursued his academic interests by way of a Masters (MSc) in Social Anthropology at Oxford University. His focus was in migration, religion and diasporas. His work gained him fellowship to the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Since then he has returned to medicine and has worked in London, Bromley and SE England in various medical, surgical & oncological duties during his foundation and specialist training.

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as

phlebotomy (drawing blood),blood pressure measurement andnew patient checks.They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Practice Management

Mrs Katie Mitchell

Practice Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Mrs Marion Henderson

Marion is the office manager and is available to help with patient queries

Administration

Mrs Kim Grochocki

Kim deals with the repeat prescription requests, which we have to receive in writing, either by completing a request at the reception or dropping us a line in the post.

We also have a drop box where prescription requests can be posted when the surgery is closed.

Miss Claire Grochocki

Miss Chloe Gaites

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Mrs Karen Cope

Mrs Margaret Rye

Mrs Gloria Knight

Ms Laraine Hawkins

Ms Hazel Howard

Mrs Lisa Thorley

Ms Wendy Goldie

Secretaries

Ms Kerry Sharp

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.